Time For Another Episode Of “That Darn Ratzi!”
Let’s see what that zany infallible-spiritual-leader-of-a-billion-people is up to now!
Proving that you can’t teach an old Pope new tricks, the former Hitler Youth has once again publicly praised Pope Pius XII, who has been accused of collaborating with the Nazis during World War II to turn over Italy’s Jews to the concentration camps. His [...]
You Wouldn’t Like Him When He’s Angry
Not too long ago, George Takei and his longtime partner had a great big wedding — and it was a good thing they didn’t wait any longer, since California stopped allowing same-sex weddings practically the instant the voting results were in on Prop 8 — but there was a bit of a dust-up between Takei [...]
Recreating Washington
The Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County has been working on a project to create a digital reconstruction of the District of Columbia as it existed at the time of the construction of the U.S. Capitol in 1814. The video at that link explains a bit about the challenges of [...]
Linkapalooza - Random Bits
The Milwaukee Airport realizes what an annoying hassle it is to have to remove shoes and belts, empty pockets, submit to pat-downs, and whatever other useless security theater tactics the Gestapo feel like putting you through, and so they offer a “Recombobulation Area” where you can undo the various indignities and be on your way [...]
Eat One, Save One
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States. Most Thanksgiving dinners feature a roast turkey as the main course, and all told Americans will consume approximately 675 million pounds of turkey tomorrow. Resultingly, approximately 900 million hours of tryptophan-induced post-dinner naps will occur sometime in between the conclusion of the meal and [...]
Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue…
…I’m Schizophrenic, and so am I!
Most people are familiar with the Myers-Briggs Personality Type matrix at this point, so I won’t take any time explaining that to you. My regular readers also probably know that I am a dyed-in-the-wool INTJ. INTJ stands for Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judgmental and is the least common of [...]
Bail! Bail! Bail!
I think you know by now that I am strenuously opposed to all of the bailouts that the federal government has been throwing at the various flailing tentacles of the dying capitalist monster. While I can see some rationalization for injecting cash into the financial sector to revive liquidity, I see absolutely no good [...]
